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Windows 7: Safely Remove Hardware Shortcut - Create

Safely Remove Hardware Shortcut - Create

How to Create a "Safely Remove Hardware" Shortcut in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8

Information

Safely Remove Hardware allows you to safely shutdown and eject a storage device before just unplugging or disconnecting it to help prevent accidental data loss if data were still being copied or saved to or from the device. For example, if you have write caching enable on the device.

This tutorial will show you how to create or download a Safely Remove Hardware shortcut that you can use where you like in Windows.

EXAMPLE: Safely Remove Hardware

OPTION ONE

To Download the "Safely Remove Hardware" Shortcut

1. Click/tap on the download button below to download the file below.

Safely_Remove_Hardware.zip

2. Save the .zip file to your desktop.

3. Open the .zip file and extract the Safely Remove Hardware shortcut to the desktop.

8.When done, you can delete the downloaded .zip file on the desktop if you like, or save it to use again.

OPTION TWO

To Manually Create the "Safely Remove Hardware" Shortcut

1. Right click or press and hold on an empty area on your desktop, and click/tap on New and Shortcut.

2. Copy and Paste the location below into the location area, and click/tap on the Next button. (see screenshot below)

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

3.Type Safely Remove Hardware for the name, and click/tap on the Finish button. (see screenshot below)NOTE:You can name this anything you would like though.

4. Right click or press and hold on the new Safely Remove Hardware shortcut, and click/tap on Properties.

5. Click/tap on the Shortcut tab, then click/tap on the Change Icon button. (see screenshot below)

6. To Use the Default Icon

A) In the line under "Look for icons in this file", type in the location below, press Enter, and go to step 8 below. (see left screenshot below step 8)

%SystemRoot%\System32\hotplug.dll

7.To Download or Use a Custom IconNOTE:You can skip this step and go to step 6 if you do not want or need a better 256x256 pixel icon to use instead of the smaller default one.

A) You could click/tap on the Download button below to download and use this custom 256x256 pixelSafely_Remove_Hardware.ico file in a ZIP file below as this shortcut's icon if you like.NOTE:The icon will need to remain saved at the same location for the icon to continue to display on the shortcut.

B) In the line under "Look for icons in this file", click/tap on Browse and navigate to the location of the saved 256x256 pixel icon you want to use. (see right screenshot below step 8)

8. Select the icon in blue below, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshots below)NOTE:Left sceeenshot for step 4, and right screenshot for step 5.

You're most certainly Welcome! I prefer the larger screen for listing the devices presently in use over the small popup seen with the right click on the sys tray icon there. This should make things easier for anyone!

Thank You just really does not seem appropriate. I would like to extend my sincere 'Gratefulness and Gratitude' for your help. I have spent days just searching for
answers that may have worked but I am very very NEW at all this stuff.
And I STILL have not a clue as what I may have did wrong to make this all happen.

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